The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society is an socially conservative American think-tank and advocacy group that opposes abortion, divorce, and homosexuality, promoting instead the "child-rich, married parent" family.. It is perhaps most notable for its creation and coordination of the World Congress of Families, a group known for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally.
The Center traces its origins back to 1976 when Rockford College President John A. Howard formed the Rockford College Institute. This group later became The Rockford Institute. In 1997 Howard and Allan C. Carlson broke from the Rockford Institute to form the Howard Center. It incorporated the previous Center on Religion and Society, and took over publication of both The Religion and Society Report and The Family In America.
The Howard Center is an independent, non-sectarian organization.
The current chairman of the board is Bill Andrews of Chicago, with a total of fifteen board members including Dallin H. Oaks who is an honorary board member.
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Controversies
In January of 2012, Robert W. Patterson resigned from his job as an aide in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare after Governor Tom Corbett's administration rejected a request to allow him to continue as editor of the Howard Center's journal, The Family in America. His column had proposed that "birth-control pills suppress women's sexual pleasure" and suggested "condom use deprives women of "remarkable chemicals" in semen that elevate their mood and self-esteem."
In November 2013, a meeting hosted by the Howard Center and the World Congress of Families was denied access to a Senate meeting room by Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL). The meeting eventually went on as scheduled after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) intervened.
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